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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Amphibia}}'':
** Anne Boonchuy. She can be quite self-centered and controlling at times, thinking that her ideals and methods are beneficial to everyone, and has a habit of jumping into situations without thinking about the consequences. On the other hand, it's not hard to feel sorry for her, considering that she's TrappedInAnotherWorld with no idea how to go back home, completely lost in a DeathWorld and forced to fend for herself for days before meeting the Plantars. Most of her flaws come from a very screwed-up view about how friendships should work because of Sasha and Marcy's ToxicFriendInfluence. It becomes more prominent in "True Colors" [[spoiler:when she finds out both of her friends betrayed her -- Sasha by staging a coup against King Andrias and Marcy by deliberately stranding the girls in Amphibia and not planning for them to return home. While Anne is shocked and downright furious at her friends, this doesn't make Sasha and Marcy excuses for Anne's bad deeds during the course of the show as Anne herself acknowledges her faults and vowed to do the right thing and learn from them at the end when Valeriana gave her "TheReasonYouSuck" Speech as ASecretTestOfCharacter at "The Second Temple"]].
** Sasha Waybright is initially presented as manipulative and bossy even towards her friends, and doesn't accept any insubordination. However, throughout the series it turns out that her ControlFreak tendencies are born out of a misguided yet genuine desire to make sure that her loved ones will succeed, and she sincerely considers that her ways are the best ways (the fact that her parents are divorced may have something to do with it). Indeed, when Anne calls her "a horrible friend" in a fit of rage, Sasha is shaken by her words and takes them to heart, resolving to become a better person and friend as atonement. In Season 3B, she's even shown to have serious self-doubt about whether she's really changed.
** Hop Pop can be overly stern towards his grandchildren and [[{{Hypocrite}} occasionally calls Anne, Sprig, and Polly out for things he sometimes does]], and can even be greedy at times. The reason for his overprotectiveness stems from [[OutlivingOnesOffspring losing his own child who was either Sprig and Polly's mom or dad in a Heron attack]]. Causing Hop Pop to deal with survivors guilt for years, and leaving him to raise Sprig and Polly on his own. Making it impossible to not feel sorry for him.
** While Polly can be highly aggressive and violent, she's shown to have been as deeply affected by the loss of her parents in "After the Rain" and "All In" as Sprig and Hop Pop. It's even sadder when you realize that while Sprig is the older of the two, he was still too young to remember much about them aside from them giving him iconic hat on his birthday. Meaning that Polly very likely doesn't remember a single thing about them.
** Tritonio Espada was introduced as a backstabbing crook who would use children to get what he wants. "Newts in Tights" makes him this after the reveal that he was orphaned and forced to live on the streets of Newtopia and would betray or be betrayed by whatever street gang he finds himself in just to survive. Something that he clearly doesn't like doing, even when it's clear that his current merry band adores him. Prompting Anne to give him a lesson about loyalty. He eventually changes his ways and becomes an ally to the heroes.
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* ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends'': Jon and Garield get a new neighbor, Theodore Block, a crotchety old cat-hating man. He hates cats enough to go on a daytime talk show to tell the world how much he hates them. After a bit of investigation, Garfield quickly finds out he had a cat named Foo Foo as a child, who went missing one day, turning his heartbreak into anger at all cats.
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** Frida becomes this in the last five episodes of season 1. Between lashing out at Hilda and David when she lost her perfection all thanks to her Nisse stealing her favorite book and befriending the Marra out of desperation for friends only to get betrayed by them just to save themselves from the Black Hound, you couldn't help but feel bad for her.
** Hilda becomes this in season 2. Constantly keeping Johanna in the dark of her adventures and lying to her about them, she ended up being grounded for the first time in her life when her recent adventure with the Kraken has been exposed. Between getting into arguments with her in the time travel episode and the season 2 finale, she ended up getting better in the latter upon seeing Johanna breaking down in being trapped in the troll cave with no way out.

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** Frida becomes this in the last five episodes of season Season 1. Between lashing out at Hilda and David when she lost her perfection all thanks to her Nisse stealing her favorite book and befriending the Marra out of desperation for friends only to get betrayed by them just to save themselves from the Black Hound, you couldn't help but feel bad for her.
** Hilda becomes this in season Season 2. Constantly keeping Johanna in the dark of her adventures and lying to her about them, she ended up being grounded for the first time in her life when her recent adventure with the Kraken has been exposed. Between getting into arguments with her in the time travel episode and the season Season 2 finale, she ended up getting better in the latter upon seeing Johanna breaking down in being trapped in the troll cave with no way out.



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''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'' has [[JerkassWoobie/StarWarsTheCloneWars its own page]].

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* ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooMysteryIncorporated'': Velma Dinkley is a ControlFreak to Shaggy, snarky and nearly came to blows with Scooby over Shaggy. But when Shaggy chooses his friendship with Scooby, Velma bursts into tears. And now she has the burden of sharing responsibility for the dissolution of Mystery Incorporated. She's all alone now, save for her parents.

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** Velma. You can't help but feel sorry for her when [[spoiler:Shaggy picks
Scooby over Shaggy. But when her. Granted, Shaggy chooses his friendship with Scooby, Velma bursts into tears. And now she has the burden of sharing responsibility probably wasn't a good match for the dissolution of Mystery Incorporated. She's her anyway...]] [[spoiler:Feel more sorry for her; she's all alone now, save now that the gang's split up. Oh and remember...''she's being blamed for her parents.it by Daphne''.]]
** Sheriff Stone can fall into this territory too, especially in "Dead Justice" and "All Fear the Freak".
** Danny Darrow [[spoiler: when he was a child; he and his family go crazy with greed after finding a piece of the planespheric disc, and their house sinks underground where he's forced to live out his life (about 75 years), obsessed over the piece, while he and his family grow old, and they all die. A run in with the original Mystery Inc. leads him to set traps all over the house, and he almost kills the current ones with them, and later with a fire poker. In one scene, the gang sets a trap, and Scooby lures him in while pretending to be his mother, he responds with a genuine hopeful smile and says "Mommy, you came back to me?" Despite knowing that she died years ago.]]
** [[spoiler:The members of the original Mystery Inc., with the possible exception of Professor Pericles, due to how the curse of Crystal Cove completely ruined their lives and warped them all into awful people, with both Ricky Owens and Cassidy Williams undergoing a doomed romance and ending in RedemptionEqualsDeath, while Brad Chiles and Judy Reeves start as decent people who love each other and their son but gradually turn into hateful psychopaths who only care about themselves.]]
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* ''Franchise/{{TheSmurfs}}'':
** Gargamel is all too happy to call himself "evil," but he's got plenty of reason to be unhappy. First, it is strongly implied that he had a seriously abusive childhood from every time we meet one of his relatives on-screen, said relative is either trying to mooch off Gargamel, browbeat and berate him, or both, even the wealthy ones like Balthazar. Second, to near CosmicPlaything levels, every time he tries to do ''anything'' it cosmically backfires on him due to some bit of information or event he had no way of knowing, even if his labors are good, honest work. In addition to the entry in HardWorkHardlyWorks, there's been other episodes where Gargamel did try his hand at honest work only to be thwarted either directly or indirectly by the Smurfs. The most prominent of these is when Gargamel actually won at an audition to become the royal court mage, honestly (his spell ingredients were a bit jumbled by transport to the castle, and his spell malfunctioned, but the fact that he summoned a tornado indoors, rode the tornado without injury, and nobody else in attendance was hurt convinced the judges that his power and control were more than sufficient for the job). Unfortunately, his first task, finding out why the chickens were not laying eggs was solved by Papa Smurf outside his knowledge. Perhaps Gargamel could have kept the job even then, but the Smurfs that were delivering the message to the king just had to stop and intrude on Gargamel's lab, without permission which ANY mage or alchemist would have good reason to be angry about. When Johan caught Gargamel threatening the Smurfs, only then did Gargamel learn that the Smurfs were good friends of the king and was real lucky not to wind up in the dungeon. Makes his obsession with making the Smurfs suffer seem a bit more reasonable, doesn't it? Gargamel was also compelled by force of arms to take Scruple in, as an apprentice, something which everyone can agree he is ill suited to do, and Gargamel doesn't even receive compensation of any kind, not even for the kid's living expenses. Thank evilness, or whatever that The Smurfs is a SugarBowl or somebody at Gargamel's castle would be seriously under-nourished if not starving to death. As a bonus, one episode had Gargamel plan and nearly succeed at carrying out his genocidal vengeance against the Smurfs with a powerful artifact or spell of evil, and he's stopped by Sassette when she says "I love you, pappi Gargamel!". Gargamel just... stops and breaks down crying because '''nobody ever said that to him before,''' not even his own mother. There are times that the audience may ''really'' want to give Gargamel a hug.
** Azrael gets a bit of this too. Remember, Gargamel's the best owner he's ever had. Azrael has had other owners. That hole in his ear was an injury one of his previous owners did when he was a ''kitten,'' deliberately.
** Chlorhydris stole an attractive male sorcerer away from a competing sorceress, but having to live the rest of her life thinking the man she loved and wanted to marry [[RunawayGroom just didn't show up on their wedding day]] was understandable enough to make anyone with her powers want to make the world suffer with her for the unhappiness that she had to live through. Unfortunately, she had to choose the Smurfs as the target for her making the world as miserable as she was, but when they found out that her witch rival had [[TakenForGranite turned her husband-to-be into stone]] and kept him in that state for twenty years, they did everything they can to help bring that happiness back into her life and at least give her the hope of a happy ending...until her husband-to-be accidentally sat on Chlorhydris' black heart arrows which she carelessly left on a seat that he sat on and caused his heart to be filled with nothing but hate. That just broke her heart all over again, and she's back to being her old bitter self again, desiring to ruin everybody's happiness.
** Brainy Smurf at times. While he's insufferable and considered TheScrappy both in-universe and out, the other Smurfs ''never'' give him a chance or at least try to tolerate him. He gets literally ''beaten up'' pretty much every time he talks, even though the Smurfs are supposed to be kindhearted and forgiving, especially with each other. Sometimes, the reader may have the impression that he's the village's punching bag even when he doesn't do anything wrong. For instance, in ''Le Schtroumpf Reporter'', Hefty Smurf and another Smurf get annoyed because the aforementioned reporter has started writing very intellectual and hard-to-understand articles in his newspaper. They come across Brainy, who tell them that the new articles are very interesting and ask them if they agree. They beat him up for that. In ''La Gourmandise chez les Schtroumpfs'', when Greedy Smurf gets indigestion (because he didn't listen to Brainy), and Brainy (''after helping him to return to his home'') starts to annoyingly list the medicine that he will give to him, he gets a kick in the ass.

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%%** While not as big jerks, the other Dethklok members also qualify.



** Boomer is always causing trouble with the rest of the Rowdyruff Boys, but he is constantly picked on by Brick and Butch. To make him even more sympathetic, he is [[AffablyEvil possibly the nicest member of the trio]](by comparison, of course) and is the cutest of them to boot.

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** Boomer is always causing trouble with the rest of the Rowdyruff Boys, but he is constantly picked on by Brick and Butch. To make him even more sympathetic, he is [[AffablyEvil possibly the nicest member of the trio]](by trio]] (by comparison, of course) and is the cutest of them to boot.
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*** Kenny... Kenny. He's the one most likely to go along with Cartman's schemes out of the rest of the gang (though still not quite as morally bankrupt as him) and can be a very DirtyKid on top of it. But considering he's cursed [[TheyKilledKennyAgain to die over in over again, often in very painful and brutal ways, only to come back again with everyone around him acting like nothing happened]], it's hard to hold it against him. On top of that, he comes from the poorest family in town (which Cartman gives him plenty of crap for) and his parents are drunks and junkies, who often fight in front of their kids.

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*** Kenny... Kenny.''Kenny''. He's the one most likely to go along with Cartman's schemes out of the rest of the gang (though still not quite as morally bankrupt as him) and can be a very DirtyKid on top of it. But considering he's cursed [[TheyKilledKennyAgain to die over in over again, often in very painful and brutal ways, only to come back again with everyone around him acting like nothing happened]], it's hard to hold it against him. On top of that, he comes from the poorest family in town (which Cartman gives him plenty of crap for) and his parents are drunks and junkies, who often fight in front of their kids.
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* WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill: Peggy Hill has an infamously unbearable [[SmallNameBigEgo ego]] at times, that can lead her to doing a lot of rash, selfish, insensitive, and underhanded things. Even to her own friends and family. And she almost never [[NeverMyFault admits to her own failings or when she's at fault.]] But there are a fair number of episodes where it's hard not to pity her. Like in one episode, where we learn that her own mother resents her for refusing an ArrangedMarriage for the benefit of the family and blames her for their ranch's current financial woes, despite her doing everything she can to earn her mother's approval. And even after Peggy ''saves'' the ranch, her mother spitfully and stubbornly refuses to give her any credit beyond "fixing what she broke in the first place."

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* WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill: Peggy Hill has an infamously unbearable [[SmallNameBigEgo ego]] at times, that can lead her to doing a lot of rash, selfish, insensitive, and underhanded things. Even to her own friends and family. And she almost never [[NeverMyFault admits to her own failings or when she's at fault.]] But there are a fair number of episodes where it's hard not to pity her. Like in one episode, where we learn that her own mother resents her for refusing an ArrangedMarriage for the benefit of the family and blames her for their ranch's current financial woes, despite her doing everything she can to earn her mother's approval. And even after Peggy ''saves'' the ranch, her mother spitfully spitefully and stubbornly refuses to give her any credit beyond "fixing what she broke in the first place."



* ''WesternAnimation/TheLooneyTunesShow'': Daffy is a complete InsufferableImbecile who sponges off of Bugs and treats Porky badly, but he comes from a DysfunctionalFamily, had a terrible childhood, he was bullied at school, suffers from a [[DiagnosedByTheAudience possible disorder]], and has a [[InferioritySuperiorityComplex very low self-esteem]]. With the information about his past that can be pieced together, it's entirely understandable why he would have a few screws loose.

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* ''WesternAnimation/TheLooneyTunesShow'': Daffy is a complete InsufferableImbecile who sponges off of Bugs and treats Porky badly, but he comes from a DysfunctionalFamily, had a terrible childhood, he was bullied at school, suffers from a an [[DiagnosedByTheAudience possible unspecified disorder]], and has a [[InferioritySuperiorityComplex very low self-esteem]]. With the information about his past that can be pieced together, it's entirely understandable why he would have a few screws loose.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheLooneyTunesShow'': Daffy is a complete InsufferableImbecile who sponges off of Bugs and treats Porky badly, but he comes from a DysfunctionalFamily, had a terrible childhood, he was bullied at school, suffers from an AmbiguousDisorder, and has a [[InferioritySuperiorityComplex very low self-esteem]]. With the information about his past that can be pieced together, it's entirely understandable why he would have a few screws loose.

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* ''WesternAnimation/TheLooneyTunesShow'': Daffy is a complete InsufferableImbecile who sponges off of Bugs and treats Porky badly, but he comes from a DysfunctionalFamily, had a terrible childhood, he was bullied at school, suffers from an AmbiguousDisorder, a [[DiagnosedByTheAudience possible disorder]], and has a [[InferioritySuperiorityComplex very low self-esteem]]. With the information about his past that can be pieced together, it's entirely understandable why he would have a few screws loose.

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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Dinotrux}}'': Sure, Skrap-It maybe is a CardCarryingVillain / [[CardCarryingJerkass Jerkass]] but he endures too much abuse from D-Strucks (and later Splitter, Blayde, Pounder and D-Stroy) that this gag stops being funny.

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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Dinotrux}}'': Sure, Skrap-It maybe is a CardCarryingVillain / [[CardCarryingJerkass Jerkass]] but he endures too much abuse from D-Strucks D-Structs (and later Splitter, Blayde, Pounder and D-Stroy) that this gag stops being funny.



* ''WesternAnimation/ThePenguinsOfMadagascar'':
** The episode "Untouchable" features a poison dart frog with such potent venom that the slightest touch renders one temporarily paralytic and with a comical rash; he uses this power to keep all the other animals at his pettiest whim. Private eventually knocks up a protective suit that will allow him to give the slimy little chap a nice big hug. Barry contemplates if he's really a jerk, but decides that yes, he likes hugs more.
** Officer X. His antagonism toward the penguins is because they thwarted him in the process of doing his job (In their defense, they WERE protecting someone they considered a friend). While you can't blame the penguins for trying to keep themselves safe, anytime he's not opposing the penguins, he's really just doing his job, and his "reward" for this is constant public humiliation and scorn.



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